controlling the wireless interface [fixed -- ignore]
Chad Perrin
perrin at apotheon.com
Fri Apr 27 23:32:34 UTC 2007
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:08:28PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I've gotten the wireless interface on a Thinkpad R52 working from the
> instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
>
> Unfortunately, I seem to have run into a problem. Most of the time, the
> interface that will be used is the RJ-45 ethernet NIC, not the IPW2200
> wireless NIC. I've yet to find a way to get the wireless to work
> without starting it at boot time. How would I go about configuring the
> system so that it doesn't start fwe0 at boot, but allows me to start it
> (easily) later if I need it?
Please ignore this. I seem to have made a stupid error during install.
I used the wrong firmware. All is now well.
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